All great achievements are the product of commitment. Learn more about UBC’s nine commitments by visiting the university’s Place and Promise Plan, reviewing the full annual report for progress and metrics, and exploring the stories below to see how students, faculty, staff, and alumni are bringing the commitments to life.

Righting a 70-Year Wrong

Righting a 70-Year Wrong

70 years after their internment during the second world war, UBC honored 61 Japanese-Canadian students whose educations had been interrupted, with honorary degrees. This special honorary degree ceremony was the culmination of a three-year process, led by Mary Kitigawa, to determine how best to address this dark park of UBC’s history. Along with the honorary degrees, the university also developed initiatives to educate current students about this part of the university’s past, and the UBC Library will work to preserve and bring to life the historical record of the period.